Arlington (AGMR 2) Class: Photographs
| These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive. |
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USS Wright (CC 2) Underway on 25 September 1963. The AGMR conversion of her sister Saipan (over half completed as CC 3) inherited the main features of her Command Ship (CC) arrangement. On her port side Wright had a row of three heavy masts from the tops of which low frequency long wire antennas were spread. At the base of the middle mast was a small helix house serving what were probably conformal helical antennas inside these three masts. On the centerline were two much taller masts supporting two 10/30 MC (megacycle) LF log periodic antennas with oversized cone antennas below them. In between them were two standard Navy discone antennas. As a combatant (CC 2), Wright had no letters before her hull number "2" on the bow. Photo No. KN 5822 Source: Shipscribe |
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USS Arlington (AGMR 2) The antenna farm on the former flight deck of the ship photographed at Mobile, Alabama, when the conversion was essentially complete. Her antenna mast arrangement is essentially the same as that of Wright, above. Photo No. BUSHIPS 173653, NAID 6930334 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-NN, negatives) |
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USS Arlington (AGMR 2) An undated drawing of the antennas on the ship. On the centerline she had two tall heavy masts supporting cage antennas and at the top large log periodic antennas. In between them were two much shorter standard Navy discage antennas. To port she had a row of three heavy dielectric masts from the tops of which long wire low frequency antennas were spread and with a helix house at the base of the middle mast. There was also a bewildering number of whip antennas around the deck edge plus two wire dipole antennas wrapped around the bow and stern. This plan does not show a Satcom dish antenna but photos from 1968 show that one was added. Photo No. None Source: www.navy-radio.com/ships/agmr2.htm "thanks to John KX4P" |
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USS Arlington (AGMR 2) Underway in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 15 August 1966. Note that her hull number "2" was preceded by letters, indicating that she was an auxiliary ship. Photo No. KN 14281 Source: Shipscribe |
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USS Arlington (AGMR 2) Underway off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 28 January 1967. Photo No. KN 14227 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USS Arlington (AGMR 2) Underway circa 1968 with her crew manning the rail and two SH-3 helicopters flying in the distance. An antenna like the satellite dish antenna over the bridge of Annapolis (AGMR 1) has been added. Although it is seen here between the first two stacks it was probably located on a stand aft of the second (middle) port side mast. There is a similar, empty stand, probably aft of the third (after) port side antenna mast, to which the satellite antenna seems in later photos to have been moved. Photo No. NH 69304 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (received from the ship in 1969) |
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USS Arlington (AGMR 2) Underway on the Sagami Sea off Yokosuka, Japan, on 21 August 1968. The satellite dish antenna, now mounted aft of the third port side antenna mast, is visible here between the island and forward stack. Photo No. KN 17117 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USS Arlington (AGMR 2) Underway near Yokosuka, Japan, on 21 August 1968, photographed by an aircraft from NAS Atsugi, Japan. The satellite dish antenna is visible aft of the third port side mast, and there is no such antenna aft of the second mast. Photo No. Unknown Source: Shipscribe |
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